Hundreds of Kalmykia pensioners have moved to live in Europe and America, KalmykiaNews reports.

The Pension Fund informs (more…)

Today, on October 8, 2020, Decree No. 243 established the Tourism Council under the Head of the Republic of Kalmykia, reported the Head of the Tourism Department of KalmykiaNews. (more…)

Italy

The official name of Italy is the Italian Republic (Italian. Repubblica Italiana) – a state in southern Europe, in the center of the Mediterranean. Italy is part of the European Union and NATO since their inception, is the third largest economy in the European zone. (more…)

Spain is officially called the Kingdom of Spain – a sovereign state in southwestern Europe and partly in Africa, a member of the European Union and NATO.

Spain occupies the majority (80%) of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the Canary and Balearic Islands, has a total area (more…)

France is a transcontinental state, including the main territory in Western Europe and a number of overseas regions and territories.

The capital of France is Paris.

The motto of the Republic is “Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood”, its principle is the rule of the people, by the people and for the people. (more…)

The Council of Europe [ Ru | Es | It ]

News from Europe. International relations.

Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov as a member of the delegation of the Russian Federation arrived in Strasbourg (north-east of France), where from 28 to 30 March 2017 participates in the 32nd plenary session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. (more…)

Hell’s devils: How Russia’s steppe warriors took on Napoleon’s armies

July 28, 2014 Alexander Vershinin, Special to RBTH

Direct descendants of the fearsome Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan, in the early 19th century Kalmyk cavalrymen were to play a significant role in driving Napoleon’s Grande Armée out of Russia and all the way back to Paris, with their ancient battle skills sowing confusion and terror in the French ranks. (more…)

Primary wool processing factory “Elmi” was commissioned in 1996 in Elista. Processing capacity – 20 thousand tons of wool in bulk.

The factory “Elmi” is equipped with modern automated equipment company “Amalric Internationale” (France) and has advantages over existing counterparts, particularly in the energy intensity of the final product. (more…)

Thanks for integration, association and help to:

Anatoly Matsakov (Ketchenery, Kalmykia)
Saglara Khartskhaeva (Madrid, Spain) for Presentation of Kalmykia and kalmyk art in Spain
Chuck Norris (USA, Hollywood)
Maj Jeanne (Copenhagen, Denmark) for Exhibition “The hidden Republic – Pictures from Kalmykia”
Aysa Dzhigaeva (Budapest, Hungary) (more…)

The Chessman Cometh [ En | Ru ]

An interview with globe-trotting chess promoter, former president, and freelance diplomat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING. MAY 9, 2012

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov garners an awful lot of press for the president of the World Chess Federation. But he’s not exactly your average chess buff. From 1993 to 2010, he was president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia and became known for his efforts to transform the remote Buddhist region into an international chess mecca as well as for his frank comments about an encounter with aliens he claims to have had in 1997. (He was also widely criticized for his autocratic rule over the impoverished republic.) (more…)

13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group

From Thursday 24 March to Tuesday 29 March 2011 the 13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group of the IUCN-SSC was held in conjunction with the 4th meeting of the Russian Goose, Swan and Duck Study Group (GSDSG) of northern Eurasia in Elista, Kalmykia (Russian Federation).

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A group of World Bank and EU experts will conduct a monitoring of effectiveness of authorities of Republic of Kalmykia, as a REGNUM correspondent was told by Elena Malunova, the republic’s Deputy Economic Minister.
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Okna Tsahan Zam new album “Shaman Voices”

“A journey in the steppe”

Ethnic songs, Throat singing, overtone singing.

Claude Samard Polikar.
France, 2004.

“East-West fusion with a difference… done in a vastly better way than any other fusion with overtone singing that I’ve heard.”
Geoff Burton (UK fRoots magazine) (more…)

Madame Michel Julien: We decided to be useful to our historic homeland. [Fr]

Madame Michel Julien already visited to the district center Malye Derbety last year.

This time with her arrived a husband Claude Julien, sister Namcha Dodini-Bambinova with her husband Michel, brother Marcel and his daughter Natalie. They arrived to admire the beauty of Kalmykia, meet people and render a small sponsorship, reports Stepnaya Nov’. (more…)

My dream is to turn Kalmykia into a republic in which citizens are proud to live just as in America, England, Japan or France.

We must do everything we can to ensure that our children can say with pride: “I live in Kalmykia”. Everyone must begin to think of his or herself as a resident of Kalmykia first, and only then a Chechen, Darghin, Russian, Kalmyk or Ukrainian. Your little homeland, the land on which (more…)